Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Dreamers of Worlds

Quixote e Pança, dreamers of worlds

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Quixote e Pança, dreamers of worlds

"Quixote e Pança, dreamers of worlds"

Based on Miguel de Cervantes and António José da Silva

Author Based on Miguel de Cervantes and António José da Silva

Dramaturgy, Direction and Set Design Paulo Calatré

Direction Assistance and voice-over Patrícia Andrade

Performance Benedita Mendes, Eduardo Corono, Ellen Rodrigues and Miguel Brás

Costumes Patrícia Costa

Props, poster and graphic materials Rafaela Schimitt

Lighting design and lighting operation William Alves

Sound creation and sound operation João Nuno Henriques

Construction of scenic elements William Alves

Production and communication Celina Gonçalves

Production and communication assistance Patrícia Morais

Promotional video and scene photographs Ovelha Eléctrica

Artistic direction of Teatro das Beiras Fernando Sena and Sónia Botelho

Approx. duration: 45 min.

Age classification: For ages 6 and up

On a rainy night torn by thunder, four young people find shelter in an abandoned theatre. Dust rises like memory, silence listens to them. Ghosts murmur. At the centre of the stage, an old book awaits Don Quixote and his squire Sancho Panza.

They open it. And, without knowing how, fall inside.

What was paper becomes wind, becomes horse, becomes giants. Words take on flesh. Voices multiply. They are no longer just four: they are many more, they are others, they are characters, they are everything they dare to imagine.

Just like Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, these four young people are on stage, in the place of stories, in the place where the real unravels and dreaming begins. And perhaps there is no difference. They invent worlds as if lighting lamps in the dark. They lose themselves in order to find themselves. Do they play at madness, or is it freedom? And one question remains suspended in the air: who decides what is true?

Outside, the world runs fast. Screens lit up, accelerated internet, everything immediate, everything now. Mystery shrinks. Imagination falls asleep.

But here, on this stage, it, imagination, resists.

It breathes. It grows. And it reminds us that imagining can be the bravest of acts. That imagination is the most powerful energy in the world.

Teatro das Beiras opens its door to you.

Come in. Perhaps, just like Don Quixote, you will never see reality the same way again.

TOUR:

PREMIERE - 14.april.2026: Teatro das Beiras - Fernando Landeira Auditorium (COVILHÃ)

15 to 18 and 20 to 23.april.2026: Teatro das Beiras - Fernando Landeira Auditorium (COVILHÃ)

15.may.2026: Cine-Teatro João Verde (MONÇÃO)

17.may.2026: Municipal Auditorium (LOUSADA)

20.may.2026: Teatro Lethes (FARO)

30.may.2026: Teatro-Estúdio António Assunção (ALMADA)